Other Divisions of The Site (historical)
- Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) - made plutonium metal for use in weapons
- B Plant, S Plant, T Plant - processing, separation, and extraction of various chemicals and isotopes
- Health Instruments Section - an attempt to keep workers and the environment safe
- REDOX Plant / C Plant - recovered wasted uranium from World War II processes
- Experimental Animal Farm and Aquatic Biology Laboratory
- Technical Center - radiochemistry, physics, metallurgy, biophysics, radioactive sewer, neutralization, metal fab, fuels manufacturing
- Tank Farms - storage of liquid nuclear waste
- Metal Recovery Plant / U Plant - recover uranium from tank farms
- Uranium Trioxide Plant (aka Uranium Oxide Plant aka UO3 Plant) - took output from other plants (i.e. liquid uranyl nitrate hexahydrate from U plant and PUREX plant), made uranium trioxide powder
- Plutonium-Uranium Extraction Plant / PUREX Plant - extracted useful material from spent fuel waste (also see the PUREX article)
- Plutonium Recycle Test Reactor (PRTR) - experimented with alternative fuel mixtures
- Plutonium Fuels Pilot Plant (PFPP) - see PRTR
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